trace element

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Dirt collected by a resident at the site showed selenium, a trace element that can be harmful in heavy concentrations, according to the results, which were reviewed by The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025

Zinc, an essential trace element for human health, is an important messenger that transfers both information from the outside to the inside of cells and between different cellular compartments.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2023

Selenium is a naturally occurring chemical important in the environment as a trace element.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2023

Fact-checkers have so far been unable to confirm or debunk the last of these; given the intermingling of races in his ancestral Brazil, it could even contain a trace element of truth.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

They guaranteed it would have all the necessary ingredients, right down to the smallest trace element!

From Islands of Space by Campbell, John Wood